San Anselmo palm tree uprooted and moved to Mare Island

A 30-foot-tall palm tree was moved from a San Anselmo residence to Mare Island on Thursday to be replanted in place of a palm that had died there recently. Roy Tuck, owner of A to Z Palm Tree Pros of Vista (San Diego County) was hired by the city of Vallejo to move the San Anselmo tree. He said he paid Patricia Malama, who lives at 1345 San Anselmo Blvd., $1,000 for the 60-year-old Canary Island date palm tree, which weighed 30,000 to 35,000 pounds. Because of power lines in the area Pacific Gas and Electric Co. workers assisted in the tree's removal, and San Anselmo Boulevard had to be closed temporarily.